TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Since the rebel takeover of Tripoli, evidence has been mounting that Moammar Gadhafi may have lied about the death of his adopted baby daughter Hana in a 1986 U.S. airstrike.
The...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says a new marsh fire near a highway prompted him to declare an emergency and call on the Louisiana National Guard for helicopters to dump water...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters demanding greater environmental protections for one of the world's biggest saltwater lakes have clashed with security forces in western Iran.
Photographs...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian police say a U.S. citizen kidnapped last week from his home in the capital has been freed.
Police spokesman Frantz Lerebours says the kidnappers of Frank Jean-Baptiste...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down key provision of Texas' new law requiring a doctor to perform a sonogram before an abortion, ruling that the measure violates the free...
(AP) — Calling the crime a "despicable act," a Louisiana judge has sentenced a 22-year-old man to life in prison in the killing of a Georgia insurance agent during an armed robbery at the Waffle...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Gulf Coast mixed somber ceremonies with New Orleans' signature flair to mark the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and honor those killed during the catastrophic storm...
WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Almost a dozen New England towns were rendered virtual islands Monday as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Irene reshaped parts of Vermont and upstate New York, turning...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S. envoy has complained that a nearly 3 percent cost-of-living salary hike for approximately 4,800 U.N. staff members serving in New York is unwarranted.
Joseph Torsella,...
LONDON (AP) — It took extra police and earlier closing times, but London's Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest street festival, appeared to give the city what it had hoped for Monday: a chance...
HOUSTON (AP) — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was hospitalized Monday in a medically induced coma in critical condition after fasting in the weeks since receiving a life sentence for sexually...
(AP) — State environmental regulators have approved plans for operations to resume at a Bogalusa paper mill responsible for a massive fish kill in the Pearl River.
The Department of Environmental...
